James Brownlow (22 June 2014)
"KML and Scripture : Inspiration, Preservation, and Transaltion"


 
Excellent exposition of yours on June 15th, sir.

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2014/km1615-1.htm

You mentioned that there are some who claim that passages in first and second Kings and first and second Chronicles contradict one another and that proves there are mistakes in scripture. As you point out, there are no such mistakes or errors of any kind as ALL SCRIPTURE is God BREATHED, protected, preserved, and translated correctly. The "errors" all lie with the readers. Always, it is the reader, not the Scripure in error. Example after example could be cited. Let me give one.

First Kings 7:15 gives the height of the two columns of brass standing in front of Solomon's temple as 18 cubits "apiece". Jeremiah gives the same measure, 18 cubits. Yet  Second Chronicles 3:15 states that the two pillars were 35 cubits. Commentary after commentary cites this as a " copy" error. It is not. It is simply the combined total length of the two columns together, the finished length or total measure. Either each column was 17.5 cubits, rounded to 18 in Kings, or else the columns were slightly cut off in finishing them.

As you said, these are stones for stumbling. Follow the two Rules. There are no mistakes.....